our rural and remote health providers will continue to do everything in their power to provide top of the line care to their patients. in turn, congress must continue to address rural health priorities and remove the barriers in the way of that future success. thank you and yield back. ms. tokuda: thank you, mr. speaker. i now yield my time -- myself time as necessary to make remarks about this very important month and some experiences i've had in my district. coming out of the pandemic, the health workforce shortage crisis in the u.s. remains one of the greatest challenges to health care and we must take immediate, transformational action to address it. increasing the number of health care professionals is critical to expanding access to care in rural areas and keeping rural hospitals and clinics open, just as my colleague was talking about. one way to address this issue is by ensuring providers are adequately compensated for their services. the medicare physician fee schedule is fundamentally broken. the medicare payment rates have fallen by 29% over the last two decades while the c

so they can cut out the middleman of a military provider or a civilian provider who they fear is going to judge them. i think it is a knowledge issue, essentially an advertisement issue, and comes down to an access issue. >> that also highlights an issue about when we are creating this environment where we have military members seeking medical care outside of our military system. that is never a good thing. now you are losing the thread on that members health care and that status of where they are when it comes to readiness. when we talk about these issues and the context of readiness, stop treating this as abortion is a political topic, but a health care topic and how that is directly affecting our members and leadership possibility to take care of them. >> we talk about access and how that has gotten more difficult. a lot of it is also information. you cannot get consistent information. i remember talking to one nurse outside of reno. when people asked her about abortion, she put them in touch with a clinic, different options for how you might even pay for it. so they had all the mis

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commenters and similarly just provide information about when there are complaints about providers and the process for that. and it would be great to v.i know we have annual report but it would be great to have that data discussed more in detail at the time when we have the conversation about the types and natures of complaints received and how they are systematically addressed. to ensure that there is a quality delivered to shelter clients. i think that's all i have for now. >> thank you, thank you. commissioner guerrero. >> commissioner evans covered like half of my topics. so i'll save some time. i'll go backwards. just to the point that you just raised commissioner evans about the sexual abuse piece and respond to go public comment. i don't believe that policies or solutions some of these larger entities have the capacity to uphold policies or create safety. so just thinking about this, the reality is there needs to be more women shelters that based on what i've experienced, i think almost every single women or gender non conforming person had been a victim including tameon and boo

we will no longer treat all providers and icbs as they are providing equally when you and i know it ist a set of criteria and publish the results from the start of next year. though systems and providers in the middle of the pack will get support to improve to bring them to where the best are now. those icbs and providers that are doing well will be rewarded with greater freedoms on how to spend their capital with fewer ring fences, for example. those that best demonstrate financial management will get a share of capital allocation. we want to move to a system where freedom is the norm and central grip is the exception to challenge poor performance. improving services for patients should be rewarded and the quid pro quo will there would be no more reward to failure. the work you do couldn't be more serious, when you get it right, lives are saved, when you don't, the consequences could be tragic. when performance dips, i reserve the right to take those freedoms away and those judged to be persistently failing, we will act from going from zero consequences to failure to zero tolerance. 0

dairy milk does provide 13 important nutrients and schools can provide lactose reduced mill for thoseith intolerance. plant -based milks are not there quite yet with nutrition, but some are getting there. at the same time, i think we saw when culturally appropriate milk was introduced in wic. it was successful. choice is really important. some nutrients are better than no nutrients. i think flexibility as kids participate in having better diet quality than when they don't. flexibility can help with that. >> i love that. choice, flexibility in not giving kids the only option for things that make them sick. we are in agreement. you did not say that i was brilliant, but that is okay. one last question, one last chance to complement. we have fragile egos. we need some affirmation. i speak for myself. [laughter] congress expanding programs like the fresh fruit and vegetable program which is an amazing program which would provide low-income elementary students fresh food and vegetable snacks. what impact do you think that would have if congress did that. what impact would that have if they

we provided them anti-tank mines from the very beginning. and because of the way that the fight has evolved, this is just another stage here. but again, our focus is to help them meet their needs and they've asked for these. and so i think it's a good idea to provide them. >> they're in this current pda, then? secretary of defense austin: i won't talk about what's in the pda. we'll get you a readout of that soon. >> last question. >> thank you so much for doing this, sir. as you mentioned, at the top, the latest round of assistance to ukraine comes as you're across the world engaging with your counterparts in the indo-pacific. and as we're kind of seeing the fruits of your sustained engagement in the region, i wanted to ask to what degree does the u.s. continued support for ukraine impact, you know, our continued progress in building partnerships in this region? secretary of defense austin: well, i think the impact of the conflict in ukraine has been fairly profound. what we learned early on is that ukraine matters, and not just to ukraine,

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. >> we provide safety training. part of that safety training includes how to avoid or deescalate potentially harassing situations in reaction. none of that is directed as being proactive to avoid certain situations that they may perceive without an actual threat. >> it's subjective? it's subjective on the person canvassing? if that person is a democrat, which you are in a democratic administration, a democratic appointee, you are probably hiring mostly democrats, you have a democratic administration, if it's a democrat who believes that a trump supporter, that a white caucasian person is not what they --if it is a democrat who already believes a trump supporter, a white, caucasian person is not what they, they would not feel comfortable talking to that person, because it is subjective in nature, they would skip that house to avoid that, they could do that? >> that would be an unfair characterization. >> that is not what other people have been selling was reported. when did this policy go into place? >> this policy h

be provided publicly by the city attorney and hope you can provide a fuller briefing next month.n franciscans to read the voter handbook and vote no on proposition d and yes on e. one last com, according to the examiner, this is david and gulieth measure. yes on d $8 million for their campaign and no on d8 million, yes on e has $21.500 so we expect it will pass without grassroots support and why we are here today to k your help. thank you. for ank you. any other members of the public that would like tothe commission? phone line for public comment to allow time for callers to their requests. 5 moderator, any callers in the queue? no callers. commissioners, your next item is item 11, old business commissioners, please indicate raising your hand if there is old business you ]v like to discuss. okay. move to item 12. commissioners, next item is and 12b are information only. item that do not require a vote by the commission. item 12 community living fund 6 month report. january june 2024 information only. iqing li. ag executive director dearman--apologize. good morning again, executi

>> i think the question is are they providing capabilities, or is russia providing anything to the houthis in support of their efforts, and no, nothing i am aware of. ok. let me do a couple more here. then we will go back to tony. >> now that the cease-fire seems to be achieved, what kind of corporation or support will the u.s. gift give to the troops in the blue zone between israel and lebanon. is there some sort of talks or ? >> just like i relayed to your colleagues, i don't have any updates to provide right now other than we have been having those discussions about the potential role for the department of defense, and we will certainly keep you updated when we have something along those lines. >> another question, are seeing you guys seeing any potential threat from iran coming up from different israeli neighbors now that hezbollah are blocked? what about neighbors, like iranian allies? >> yeah, i mean, nothing beyond what we have already seen from a million proxy groups. i mean, they obviously still pose a significant threat to israel in the region, and we will continue to work with o

i'm not provided with adequate clothing. i thought of many have not changed that close since the arrest tom and whether detained 6 months ago, a year ago, or even longer. they were the same clothing they were arrested in the body. additionally, is really prisoners with ortiz, but particularly in mosquito prison, prohibit detainees from washing that closed spot to providing cleaning materials. the detainees are forced to wash that close by hand in cold water and with them dam due to the lack of drying facilities, the towels or any other hygiene necessities i'm not supplied. leading to the spread of severe skin diseases like scabies, a significant number of released detainees have shown the symptoms highlighting the die a health conditions for o m. o. i have personally seen detainees in mosquito prison with severe skin conditions and alterations. now, this issue has become even more severe with the approval of this new law making conditions. significantly hotshot from the new law directly leads to an increase in the number of

provide art supplies. we have a read aloud program for professionals working with parents age 5-0. 0-5. and we go to neighborhoods with low book access and we buy and build book houses and reg urally stock them and do the same with public health. thank you to sip for funding us. if you like me to- >> thank you. >> do a brief answer to your question. >> mr. schwartz if you would provide information from the non profit. >> from my perspective, emerson who is here as a example came with two people and conducted a extensive hour long site visit, so i know they are using the portal. we dont have access to the portal, but they came and they asked for written information, they toured our book bank in the bayview, they lifted our programs we offer, and made a decision based on finding a non profit that puts all its money to books and to children and if you come viz sit us you will see cardboard boxes. we dont put money into furniture, we put it in books. parsons as well. we supply statistics for them and they did

dairy milk does provide 13 important nutrients and schools can provide lactose reduced mill for thoseith intolerance. plant -based milks are not there quite yet with nutrition, but some are getting there. at the same time, i think we saw when culturally appropriate milk was introduced in wic. it was successful. choice is really important. some nutrients are better than no nutrients. i think flexibility as kids participate in having better diet quality than when they don't. flexibility can help with that. >> i love that. choice, flexibility in not giving kids the only option for things that make them sick. we are in agreement. you did not say that i was brilliant, but that is okay. one last question, one last chance to complement. we have fragile egos. we need some affirmation. i speak for myself. [laughter] congress expanding programs like the fresh fruit and vegetable program which is an amazing program which would provide low-income elementary students fresh food and vegetable snacks. what impact do you think that would have if congress did that. what impact would that have if they

i have her post providers and having patients unable to stay.ferent providers complaining they get paid less than medicare will pay but at the moment these are stories in the press and not data we are tracking the i would add the one wrinkle getting paid at par with traditional medicare inferring higher denials we found providers last about one 100% of their deniability. one hundred dollars and they likely get all $100 and only $93 paid back. >> i think that is an important part. we have a beak one more question. >> i just had a question impacting others. >> the short answer is i don't know that anybody has tracked that specifically. our colleagues have looked at brokers and broker commissions. incentives over other products but in terms of the aggregate dollar. >> i'm not aware that it's been quantified we are planning work around this issue or issues raised. break and discuss the solution. [applause] [inaudible]

dairy milk does provide 13 important nutrients and schools can provide lactose reduced mill for those with intolerance. plant -based milks are not there quite yet with nutrition, but some are getting there. at the same time, i think we saw when culturally appropriate milk was introduced in wic. it was successful. choice is really important. some nutrients are better than no nutrients. i think flexibility as kids participate in having better diet quality than when they don't. flexibility can help with that. >> i love that. choice, flexibility in not giving kids the only option for things that make them sick. we are in agreement. you did not say that i was brilliant, but that is okay. one last question, one last chance to complement. we have fragile egos. we need some affirmation. i speak for myself. [laughter] congress expanding programs like the fresh fruit and vegetable program which is an amazing program which would provide low-income elementary students fresh food and vegetable snacks. what impact do you think that would have if congress did that. what impact would that have if the

-provided weapons. i will defer to the governments of ukraine and the uk can speak to that. >> sorry. also reports that the u.s. has thought to have provided navigational information for these missiles. can you confirm that? >> i'm not going to speak to that at all. >> can you give us a readout of the meeting with the ukrainian foreign minister yesterday? what was the purpose? >> the ukrainian foreign minister was in town and the secretary saw the ukrainian foreign minister last week when he was in bruss els and had a conversation with him about what we are prepared to do to make sure ukraine is positioned for success on the battlefield 2025 and how we can continue to support them and update them on concrete steps we are taking, and i think i'll leave it at that. the ukrainian foreign minister was in town yesterday and the secretary was not here. as you know, he was traveling back from the g20 in rio. so john bass took that meeting, but it was to continue those discussions about how we can support ukrai

financial contributions and whether there are countries that can provide training or countries can provide other operational support to make sure it can perform the important role it would have to play in ensuring u.n. security council resolution 1701 is fully implemented. reporter: do you feel those gaps have narrowed and are they in a position or is it just political will at this point? matthew: i really don't think i should get into characterizing negotiations of the parties or negotiating in public. i'm going to decline to answer that one. go ahead and i'll come to you next, michelle. reporter: so have you gotten feedback on the cease-fire proposal? is it considered a nonstarter? matthew: i'm not going to negotiate in public in any way on this issue. reporter: you said they approved the track of indirect negotiations of the speaker of the parliament but rejected israel would be able to keep striking even after a truce is reached, is that something you find workable? matthew: i think i'm relying on my previous answer and not discuss a potential deal we're trying to get over the finish l

community banks in particular have played a key role, including by providing a significant portion of small business loans relative to their assets. let me discuss several key areas of our partnership starting with our historic economic recovery. the recovery depended on getting money out the door to families and businesses as quickly and as responsibly as possible. and this meant working with the banking system such as to deliver the american rescue plan economic impact payment to millions of families. and that's far from busy as usual. treasury conducted outreach to encourage opening free and low-cost transaction accounts to receive these payments. and banks took action to support their customers in that extremely difficult time. with mimi kennedy banks, for example, reducing or eliminating penalties for late payments on loans or credit card bills. we also depended on banks for other recovery programs such as the state small business credit initiative, a landmark small business program. community banks are behind around 90% of the ss di eii s that are supported by banks. and we see

the agriculture risk protection act of 2000 provided money, also. so today the american farmers and ranchers are experiencing literally unprecedented market conditions. so my question, as i'm running out of time here, is to usda secretary small, which i so much appreciate the work you've done. i was pleased that omb requested the 24 billion, but should congress provide supplemental funding for market losses, will you work to ensure the department implements those funds in a swift and effective measure? >> senator hyde-smith, thank you for your question, and whatever congress establishes it is our responsibility to deliver. also recognize i've spoken with farmers as well who are struggling, particularly when it comes to input costs. as congress identifies, makes the hard choice it is, about disaster funding as well as other economic assistance in the wake of fiscal conservatism, we know we've got to look deep into which farmers are struggling. and so that same report you referenced does also acknowledge that in the last four years total average net f

that one does provide you on the, on a high to in full battle gear. we're going to get rid of some interest time if i might lose the game here. so my maybe 3, the 3, the very nice tomato sauce. every one of us through. right? so the reason you gotta do not use all right, well, solid are was right on the front lines and you had mines going off that had been laid. you had constant barrage is of artillery fire. you had the ruins of uh, town and burnt out vehicles. we also found a lady that was living and sold dara, one of the last inhabitants who was refusing to leave for home and the ukrainians and you know, tried to killer and target or, but the russians came to the rescue of salo door and she remained there so she was a very interesting personally, we had a conversation with and she was standing strong and i think is emblematic of what all russian women are. they are fearless, they are standing to preserve their home. and they are not bowing to the, the fanaticism of fascist the couple. i don't hard to find me. what if i make the carry lot of beautifu

he's not providing starlight to ukrainian army you on mosque is providing star link capabilities to these drones. i'm thinking, well, he's told us in america he, oh, i'm not providing star link. that's a lie. and i get animated off because they're, they're desta creating my name and my country's name in your line to the american people telling them star links not being used to provide drones. these drones are killing people and then i see the high mars kidding schools and, and kindergartens and you're telling us all, hi mars are going to be used only for military taught targets. that's why the, where are you from and why did you come to russia? i'm from south korea, it's auditory and so and so yes. okay, how have your russian patriots, compatriots out, you know, soldiers and arms? how have they treated you and trained you? absolutely. the only i can, i guess the problem is only leg is yes. go to the good thing, the now i'm under training for jerome. our team speak english. uh huh. because the curriculum platform was also in english english. okay. yes. no problem. yeah. yes. what other nat

yeah, that human does provide you with the full battle gear. what were you going to get some interest in it? does anybody nice to speak english? yes. yes. i know. so my name is rita. believe the very nice to meet you to discuss me every one of us through. right. so the reason is you got to do not use all like well, solid or it was right on the front lines and you had mine's going off. that had been laid. you had constant barrages of artillery fire. you had the ruins of uh, town and burnt out vehicles. we also found a lady that was living in solar door, one of the last inhabitants, who was the refusing to leave for home and the ukrainians. and, you know, try the killer and target or, but the russians came to the rescue of salo, darn, she remained there. so she was a very interesting personally, we had a conversation with and she was standing strong. uh, and i think is emblematic of what all russian women are. they are fearless, they are standing a to preserve their home, and they are not biling to the, the fanaticism of fascist the couple. i don

you provide direct support for child victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.orked to improve community responses to these heinous crimes. you work to ensure all youth will come in contact with the justice system have equal access to specialized well resourced counsel. that condition and treatment of young people in correctional facilities and work to ensure they can successfully reenter their communities you provide specialized services with youth and their families from educational and vocational opportunities to housing assistance and healthcare, to family programming and substance abuse treatment. you do this to ensure young people are able to rejoin their communities build a fulfilling purposeful and safe lives. you do this work with the understanding that we must confront the persistent justified disparities in juvenile justice outcomes along racial and socioeconomic lines. i know this represents just a fraction of your work and of your effort. thank you from the bottom of my heart. as we mark 58 years since a historic enactment of the juvenile justice de

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. >> supports c-span as a public service along with these other television providers. giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> u.s. attorney general merrick garland spoke at the national conference on youth justice, thanking those in attendance for promoting juvenile justice. one of the lowest levels of violent crime in 50 years. ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] a.g. garland: good morning, everyone. thank you for your leadership, commitment to this work and your vision. vision. i am grateful to you and the entire team at the office thank you for your extraordinary leadership for the office of justice programs. because of liz, brent and their teams, the 2024 national conference on youth justice, our first in 13 years, has been an incredible success. [applause] [applause] to the justice department partners looking to advance juvenile justice, i know you have heard from a lot of people over the past few days. the most important thing i want you to hear from me is thank you. u. thank you for traveling from across the country to l thank you for traveling across the country to learn fro

but clearly it will be shaping in the way how financial military assistance is provided. yeah, trump says here of his paying a fraction of what the us has given to you crime that year. it's actually allocated more according to the kelly institute and it could amount to will much double if you include count pages. how damaging would it be to you? trans defenses. if trump pull support and could, you can save up, they feel like that's as it is true, that europe is providing in the norm in old times, even more than united states. because europe provides a lot of financial assistance to keep you creating an economy of load them to be able to support social payments and actually partially as financing ukrainian military to fight the war. so if america pulls out is being one of the largest militaries in the world with quite significant still stalled in what you us can provide. it will. um, actually we can ukraine on defenses and i'll be good leads to the crumbling or the front line in the east because of the type of assistance that america is providing . and that includes infant

any information provided by another information content provider, that is a third party. very simple, we just talked about this, the platform is not a publisher of all the third-party speech on the platform the way the new york times is a publisher of all the articles you read in the new york times, so at the beginning, you can't just go through tiktok or twitter or whatever, x or whatever and say this is defamatory, tiktok or x is liable, they can't be held liable for the speech of third-party providers that they host, pretty easy, nobody is disputing that. the other liability is no provider or user of interactive computer service, c2 shall be held liable on account of, quote, any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material, end quote. that is content moderation, the same thing we just talked about so x or instagram goes through and takes down pornography, terrorism videos, whatever, the fact that it's moderating the content available on the platform doesn't turn it back into the new york times. that's it. they're not a publis

the american people do not want to continue financing and providing weapons to ukraine. that's what they're doing and what to say. i see the vicious kept out of the training mind. so what we've seen is a a pseudo pagan, brainwashing of via craniums. that often is reinforced with tattoos of teutonic viking swastika bend there. a hero ideologies. and then that is amplified by drug inducement. the for the, for the, for the russian weapons, i think are the best weapons on earth. i think they're wonderful weapons. my, my father always described the a k. 47 is the best rifle ever made. uh, they preferred the was in vietnam by me partial to that to life. i've had an a k 47 personally and i think it's a wonderful weapon that endorse everything. very powerful and essentially cannot be exhausted and cannot be broken to school the for sure. don't cool funny because i was a special operation soldier myself in the army and i see in their eyes the same discipline professionalism, stoicism, and i think they're also loved by the people in the civilian cities, of, of russia, to the mothe

to provide roughly 40% capacity. on the inherited the fleet, we took over assets roughly 30 years older than the electricity power average in the united states. issues relating to age and general obsolescence of the fleet continue to persist today. over the last year, we worked tirelessly to provide electric generation service with few interruptions which with no is necessary to ensure every family on the island has access to reliable power but let me say this, the work we've done is not enough and could be improved. every puerto rican deserves access to power. when structuring the maintenance contract, we built around four key priorities that will improve and stabilize the generation system for all puerto rico. we aim to improve the reliability of power availability throughout the island. ensuring reliable power fundamental to success and we understand the importance of improving generation system reliability. our team has developed and implemented electric system stabilization plan to ensure continuous reliable gen

the transmission provider must hold that forum and provide the notice that such engagement period ist a certain time. aside from that we didn't give a lot of prescription because i think the intent was that this was for the state and the states should be able to carry it out however that particular region and what might make sense that particular region and also the rules encouraged states to use their existing committee processes if they would like to. they can use the oms whatever their particular structure might be or not. sometimes it might not make sense for them to use that existing structure. the one requirement in the rule is at the relevancy entities must engage in and the rule that's defined as the entities that are responsible for utility regulation and/or exciting in the state. so most likely the state commission in most places sometimes there may be other sightings but that's the only restriction and however the state wants to do that i have already heard that some are planning to use their existing structure so i think that's great. that's a framework and that the state

but i'm madly obligated to provide money. so that's why we come to these global negotiations to hard to develop countries to account because they have come in to, to provide money. but they're not on the board. and they're trying all kinds of tricks for that. they can get away from this very important responsibility project saying thank you very much and the date for joining us here on al jazeera. thank you. as the mass says, and these rarely strikes has killed a female captive in the gaza strip. and after another critically injured, these really only says it cannot confirm or reject the claim. and now is off to the announcement, thousands of testers have been marching again. intel of is that the mon thing, benjamin that's when you all his government make a deal that would secure the release of all the remaining is really captives that mean protests across as well every week since kept his with taken into gaza last october. now all day has more from the jordanian capital m on she's there because he's very government. his band

we need to provide more resources.ertainly as it relates to energy costs, whether it is electricity or home heating oil, we need to do more with regard to light heat, low income energy assistance programs. we need to look at wages. wages have not kept up. we need to look at the increase of the federal minimum wage to raise that up to at least $14 or $15 an hour to keep up with inflation. and looking at social security we need to expand benefits and raise not only the cap on the payroll tax but also to raise more revenue to protect social security and we need to take a look at the cola. >> i want to keep things moving along. same question. >> a lot of news is out there about dynamic pricing and that happens in a closed market. david and senator king and myself are looking at more competition for living costs. for here in maine, specifically what can be done is we need to make -- take advantage of our location. we are in the northeast, where isolated transportation costs are very expensive. i used to live in d.c. and the

announcer: cox supportc-span as a public service, along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. announcer: for question time this week, deputy prime minister angela rayner filled in for a prime minister keir starmer who was attending the g20 summit in rio de janeiro. she faced questions on the economy and inflation, the humanitarian crisis in gaza, maternal health care, and public safety. this is about 40 minutes. >> right. we now come to questions to the deputy prime minister. >> number one, plays mr. speaker. >> i have been asked to reply. my right honorable friend the prime minister has attended the g20 summit, strengthening the uk's ties with major economies to drive jobs and security at home. this week marks 1000 days of putin's barbaric war in ukraine. we will stand with ukraine for as long as it takes. this week also marks equal pay day. i am extremely proud that this government have introduced the employment rights bill, strengthening the rights of working women and making work pay. this morning, i will have meetings with ministerial co

this provides on-the-job training and provided through union and provides technical skills and partnersram at a we partner to provide these services. >> i will highlight 2 of our programs and two of our programs, two organizations and one actual program. one of the things i want to highlight is our tenderloin district, offers the tl program. it operates about 26 square city blocks from here to van ness to the border would be union square. the tlcbd provides cleaning and litter reduction services in these 26 squire blocks. cyc provides trash can and sidewalk steam cleaning services through a citywide. they provide the services citywide. this is part of the proactive nature that we are responsive with public works for citywide proactive. they go make sure that all of our city cans are clean and sidewalks are clean. what you see here in front of you is this third slide on your right is our summer youth program. they provide landscaping and litter reduction services. this is our citywide program for our high school youth and gives them the entry and instruction to actually working an actual

we provide an ombudsman office. that office is there to make sure staff or stakeholders can report any instance. -- incident and do it with someone who's impartial and independent of the work that we do to report any incidents that are of concern. we make sure that we provide enhanced medical services, to your point about behavioral health. we provide enhanced educational services to children, and we try to provide legal advocacy services as well. >> thank you. and my final question is, i'm asking you to look at the future from what you have internalized so far during your tenure in your position. as we continue to see migration driven by violence, political unrest, climate change, and economic instability, especially in the hemisphere, how is orr preparing or should be preparing for potential future surges in possible unaccompanied children at the border? >> we have, and this is an excellent question, congressman, because we never have a clear sense of how many kids will come to our care from the department of home

every day we provide hot meals for 350 people. we have also equipped the kitchen and allowing us to provide hot meals for refugees. rush of support for 11 and over the years has been on wavering with the 2 companies having a special bar. yes, the show has always been on the side of level. it has supported us for a long time now as well as in the future, though it will continue to support us. russia is the only country that has always backed us in tough times and never abandons us. we are like brothers with the russians. we can never leave each other behind because i'm turn around the building . i see the conditions. people are living. rooms have families in a me, disease including a library in the kitchen business with us for the russian refugees. many families have come to us here. those families who have nowhere to live in the stay with us, and we provide them with everything they need. some people are preparing documents for leaving the country. we help them at the embassy. i don't know how the embassy distinguishes between tho

, wish to provide comment. >> any callers with their hand raised? >> >> commission secretary, no callers wish to be recognized.. thank you. >> thank you. can i motion and second to approve the minutes. >> commissioner stacy we need motion and second i think first. >> so moved. >> commissioner stacy, aye. >> commissioner arce, aye. >> commissioner jamdar, aye. >> commissioner leveroni motion passes. >> thank you. >> and will you call item >> and will you call item >> and will you call item >> and will you call item members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. i have mr. dave warner. >> thank you for your service i'm here to put a face with a name you'll find i write letters but unusually remotely. and i'm a private officer and hopefully had a chance to look at the introduction to water issues as much as the letter is critical for the sfpuc consequences i believe the sfpuc has a strongable team to identify issues to approve the first step to understand the prob

-what you're both saying is there's an obligation to civil society to provide. -somehow that society ought to provide to the best of its ability because morally and spiritually, human beings have something precious that needs to be attended to that results in how they behave. but then at the level of policy, then you say, "oh, well, let's see which way is the best way of going about doing this kind of thing." and it's that kind of discussion that we need more of in the country so that we're not at each other's throats but rather at the subject matter trying to deal with the suffering and social misery that's out there. -when it comes to positive goods like healthcare, like education, there are different ways of providing, different mixes of private and public. and reasonable people of good will can disagree about what is best. -well, a subject that you do agree about is free speech and free speech on college campuses. has it become even more difficult in recent years to speak freely on college campuses? -oh, yes. -absolutely. -no question that it has. cornel kin

it is not providing basic information. if it's not doing that, how can it claim to be committed to helping people where they are? >> i am happy to look at the information and the materials that were presented at your meeting and looking for ways to improve them. our goal should be to try to tell people how we can help them instead of telling them what we can't do. and i've tried and worked to try to change that focus or the way we approach, reaching out to people and finding ways to get to yes. >> one of my colleagues recently asked fema where approximately 400 trailers full of supplies and aid were allegedly delivered in western north carolina days after hurricane helene hit. he was told that the trailers were delivered to the state emergency management headquarters, but he also could not share where the aid estimated to be worth 4 and $10 million was actually located. is it correct that fema delivered aid to the state, then simply absolved itself from ensuring that aid actually reached the people it was intended to help?